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Cover Meeting

Cover Meeting is a new book cover design podcast hosted by British designer Steve Leard.

Steve has recorded eight episodes for the first season, with a new episode released each week, and a second season planned for 2024.

The first episode, released earlier this month, is a wide-ranging conversation with David Pearson. David discusses his time at Penguin, working freelance, the issues of low pay in the industry, as well as his design process and the challenges of creating interesting work.

Links to download the podcast can be found here.

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Design Matters with Paul Sahre

Graphic designer and book cover designer Paul Sahre talks about his work and his recent memoir, Two-Dimensional Man, with Debbie Millman on Design Matters

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Spine Magazine Podcast: Coralie Bickford-Smith

Holly Dunn interviews designer, illustrator and author Coralie Bickford-Smith for the first episode of season 2 of the Spine Magazine podcast:

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Monocle on Books in Translation

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On the latest Monocle 24 Culture show, host Robert Bound discusses the recent rise in translated fiction with Anne Meadows, commissioning editor at Portobello and Granta, and Lisette Verhagen, foreign-rights agent at David Godwin Associates, while Andrew Mueller talks to Deborah Smith, Man Booker International Prize-winning translator of The Vegetarian by Han Kang, and Lyndsay Knecht visits Deep Vellum in Dallas:1

Monocle Culture with Robert Bound Books in Translation mp3

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On the Media: Print is Back, Back Again

In a special report, WNYC’s On the Media recently took a look at the publishing industry and print books. It covers a lot of ground — including the subversive history of adult colouring books, Amazon’s bricks-and-mortar bookstore, and South Korea’s quest for a Nobel Prize in Literature — but the opening segment, ‘Why the Publishing Industry Isn’t in Peril‘, with LA Times books editor Carolyn Kellogg is an excellent overview of the current state of US publishing:

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Design Matters with Tobias Frere-Jones

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On the subject of typography, I missed type designer Tobias Frere-Jones on Design Matters with Debbie Millman at the end of last year:

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Hazlitt Interview with Peter Mendelsund

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Book designer and author Peter Mendelsund discusses his books Cover and What We See When We Read with Christopher Frey for the Hazlitt podcast:

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Design Matters with Tom Geismar

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Kicking off a new season of Design Matters, Debbie Millman talks to pioneer of American graphic design Tom Geismar about how the practice of design has changed since the 1950s:

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Design Matters with Irma Boom

Book designer Irma Boom spoke to Debbie Millman recently about her work for Design Matters:

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Joe Sacco on Bookworm


Following on from my post yesterday, Joe Sacco talks about his new book The Great War with Michael Silverblatt on Bookworm:

KCRW Bookworm: Joe Sacco The Great War mp3

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Barbara Epstein, David Levine, and Graydon Carter on Magazine Publishing


Monday’s edition of CBC Radio show Ideas featured Michael Enright in conversation with the New York Review of Book‘s co-founder Barbara Epstein, caricaturist David Levine, and long-time Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter:

CBC Radio IDEAS: Barbara Epstein/David Levine/Graydon Carter mp3

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Design Matters with Chip Kidd

Kicking off a new season Design Matters, designer and art director Chip Kidd in conversation with Debbie Millman:

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